ABSTRACT

Richard Lanham’s scholarly career has ranged widely, as even a selective glance at his bibliography reveals. He has written books on all matters rhetorical: on the human impulse for style (The Motives of Eloquence, 1976) and the pedagogies that variously exploit and discourage that impulse (Style: An Anti-Textbook, 1974), on literacy (Literacy and the Survival of Humanism, 1983), on emergency self-help for writers (Revising Prose, 1979, Revising Business Prose, 1993), and on a method for recognizing and describing prose styles (Analyzing Prose 2003).